SLX 1X MicroPrism - Multiple Illuminated ACSS Reticles

Glad I spent a little extra on this wonderful little sight. The design is super simple and light. The optics are crystal clear and I like the shape and variable brightness of the reticle. Perfect for my indoor range shooting with my CZ457. My only complaint is that the brightness adjustment knob is incredibly tight and hard to turn.

This little optic is nice! the glass is super clear and you can tell PA is producing great products! Reticle is nice (maybe a little too small for me) but no problems at all! The light settings are great but the only main issue I have is that the focus ring is a little tight! Great value and competitive! Will be trying out other optics from Primary Arms...

Received with great protective packaging. High end component and materials. Very clear glass, etched reticle alignment is perfect and impressive brightness. All adjustments are nice and tight and I'm sure they will loosen up with time to some extent. Accuracy of reticle at ranging marks was spot on. Very impressed with materials and workmanship of this optic and I will likely be purchasing more from this company. Durability remains to be seen, but I'd wager it will be extremely sturdy and capable of long term reliability.

I got astigmatism so all dots are huge. This is a tiny, crisp chevron. This let's me aim small and miss small. It feels like a computer mouse. Just point the little chevron/cursor and click and you hit. Ive been shooting irons for 25 years and within a single mag I was shooting better with the prism. Theres no learning curve. Just mount it as far back as possible and keep both eyes open and you can't miss.

I have this mounted on a 12 gauge pump action shot gun. It works well and has great illumination. The reticle is quite small and being a chevron is sometimes difficult to focus on with my old eyes. The illumination itself is quite red and I would say gets daylight bright. It comes with an assortment of mounting options and the tools for install and this makes installation a snap. I've had it on the gun for months now and its still on the first battery, so I cannot complain about its battery life. For under $300 I am extremely happy with this red dot, and for the money it is an excellent optic. Also I cannot complain about its clarity. I have a Trijicon ACOG for a while, and this is the only experience I can compare it to as I am just starting to get into optics. But, I do not see a difference in the glass quality (I'm sure there is one, but I cannot see it) and the reticle, when illuminated, is almost as crisp. My only complaint is that it did not come with the sunshade and a fall caused a piece of aluminum to break off where the sunshade would have threaded in. I'd rather have paid $20-$30 more to get the sun shade included as I am convinced that having the sunshade installed, as it is aluminum as well, would have prevented that damage. This is my reasoning for 4 stars instead of 5. But the rest of the optic, you know the important stuff, is working like nothing happened at all. I now have the sunshade installed and I really like this little prism optic!

Easy to mount, sight in, clear reticle, lights up bright, holds zero, and light weight. Seems to be very well made. I feel this purchase was money well spent.

Best optic for the money. It's small, clear and comes with great options to mount it to your desired specifications.

Been shooting since '98. Army, civilian, it's been a part of me for half my life and shooting red dots was actually how I found out I have astigmatism. Used red dots 90% of the time and while certainly not unusable, they always were blurry or had a starburst pattern. Didn't matter the brand (EOTech, Vortex, Aimpoint, etc), the red dot was always the same. For a while (prior to 2010-ish) there wasn't much to be done about it unless you wanted to shell out thousands for an ACOG. So I sucked it up and stuck with the blurry red dots. Until I got the Primary Arms SLX and let me tell you... it's like putting on glasses for the first time. You didn't realize just how blurry the world was (trees aren't just blobs of green and actually have leaves!). Its the same experience. Your red dot "world" snaps into focus and you can never go back. The Autolive feature is great, especially for a home defense rifle. Just turn it to the brightness setting you want and leave it. It will auto turn off and "shake awake" when you pick it up, already right back to your last brightness setting by the time you lift it up and aim it. It comes with 8 different mounting options but with everyone moving toward 2.26" these last few years, it feels like a "nice to have but never gonna use it" kinda option. Most people will set to the highest option, or the lower 1/3 cowitness for those who can't let go of that mount height. Many other will simply place it on a Unity FAST mount or a riser (like I did). The eye relief, which is the biggest criticism most have with prism optics (not unique to PA, just something all prism sights contend with) is really not bad at all. I think the criticism of them is greatly blown out of proportion. The eye relief is absolutely fine for every practical (and tactical) reason you can think of. Just place it about 2 to 4" away from your eye and you're set. You're not sniping with this sight, after all. It's designed for quick, rapid shots but *also* as the ability to reach out and touch someone if need be but that's not it's main focus. The only cons for me are I wish the illumination knob was on the right instead of left side. I get that this is so you can adjust it while keeping your right hand on fire controls but it very slightly juts out into your sight. No where near a deal breaker and if you have it appropriately close it your eyes will naturally blur it out of your sight picture but slightly annoying none the less. The illumination knob is also VERY tight, especially when you first adjust it. I thought maybe it had a push-pull locking mechanism but nope. I just downed some spinach and cranked it harder. I appreciate that there's no slop or play but PA could make it just a tad looser. The problem is mainly because there the knurling on the knob needs to be a bit more robust. There's just not enough texture to match the amount of torque you need. Of course this is all moot because the GLX is coming out this summer (2024) which does away with the knob all together and replaces it with buttons. So I guess I'll be chipping out another couple hundred bucks later this year :D In the meantime, this optic is just about perfect for all my needs and the prism sight finally does away with the burry, headache inducing, issues I had to live with. The second con is the mounting option, specifically why the prism sight has a different, proprietary, mount than the standard Aimpoint Micro mount so many companies now use, including Primary Arms (non-prism) red dots. This is still an issue as their upcoming GLX uses the same prism mount and not the red dot micro mount. Honestly curious why this is because it seems like a universal micro mount many red dots are moving towards will only be a benefit the prism crowd. But for whatever reason we're locked out of that game. Sure, companies like Unity make a prism mount and their risers are truly universal, but it feels like prism sights are just weirdly out of step with the rest of the red dot market when it comes to how they mount. But the upside is that all of these "cons" are really just the most minor hiccups. They barely qualify as complaints or even annoyances. The fact is this sight is the most incredible red dot you can buy, especially if you have astigmatism.

Have it on a Canuck Wrangler and it works great. Love the green.

This optic is surprisingly nice! I mounted this on my .22LR to try out and it's fantastic! It has a really small footprint on the picatinny rail, so if you have a longer rail it gives a ton of options for customizing the placement. The red dot can be adjusted for intensity depending how bright you like it. I tend to keep it on the lower end to keep the dot as small as possible while still being visible. You don't get any magnification, so you treat this the same way you would an iron sight or open sight, but your accuracy depends on you anyway so that doesn't necessarily make it any better or worse. Sighting this in was nice and quick, and after using it for a few hours my zero never moved, so everything is nice and solid. Mind you, I can't speak to anything more powerful than a .22LR, so the experience might be different with a more powerful center fire. It does stand a fair way off the tip of a rifle, so depending on the size of your rifle case you may have to take it off, but I haven't run into that issue - it's small enough that it just stays mounted. Overall fantastic dot sight! Highly recommend!

I have astigmatism and I find these types of optics really help with getting a clear sight picture without the blow out I normally get on typical red dots. The build quality is super robust and would argue it rivals Vortex for the price and the included extras in the box for height adjustment when mounting it. The reticle itself if very clear and sharp and it has many levels of brightness Highly recommend!

While I understand the intent of this microprism, it just didn't work for me. Firstly, I found it very difficult to mount to my firearm - probably because no instructions were included nor were any makes/models of firearms listed as being compatible. Maybe its from years of always closing one eye to see through the scope that made this a difficult learning curve, I don't know. I will say that the microprism feels very solid and well built though. It is small and should not add much bulk to your firearm. I feel that maybe I need a lot more practice and patience to use this properly. Any maybe some professional guidance.